DanStewart

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Of course a minority of .0001% is still a million of the bloody things. I think the point is no one has any idea and quite possibly never will, the old speed of light being what it is. Which does as you say raise the question of why people try to make definitive statements about it. In the case of Drake and co, presumably because they are dreamers and optimists. In the case of the opposite party... :huh:

@ Adam Hey man, DI is the wave of the future! But for scope - you get the lenses and we're on... :rolleyes:

I would have thought using 7217 or 7212 in R16 and cropping the frame would get you so close it makes it wasted effort, especially for Tk only?

Why would you want to go to 16mm? Do you have a very specific presentation in mind?

If you'll go 3-perf and want to run it out of London, I'll chip in!

Hey Max, Just saw the details on 'Babysitting'. Diego and Jamie are friends of mine - what term number were you at LFS?

Hey Landon, good luck with the film. I think the reservations being voiced are more to do with it being your first feature than your age (although I think you will make the Guiness book of Records). Almost nobody is ever happy with their first film - except Ed Wood and Orson Welles... Spend only what you need to - you can't compete with Hollywood in terms of slickness unless you are going to spend millions. Technical considerations are ALWAYS secondary - you can hold barbie dolls in front of the camera and still win festivals if the script is up to scratch. I would strongly recommend making a 10 - 20 minute narrative piece in the style of the feature, if you haven't already. Then you will know exactly what is possible, and whether you and your crew are ready.

I'd love to see the 'preview' version. I was always bugged by the 'Deckard is a replicant' thing. Scott chucked in the unicorn so it's the only explanation, but the actors weren't playing it that way and it undermines his whole character. He gets his ass kicked by every one of the escapees, even the 'pleasure model', so what kind is he? Punchbag model? Roy is already dangerously close to stealing the emotional centre of the film and if Deckard is just a more stupid, less self aware version of Roy then you might as well just cut the Deckard scenes completely. And the Captain was playing along? More so in the studio version, but still he hates replicants, why would he humour one to that degree? BTW I heard that the studio 'lightened' the film for the studio release. Not sure what that means.

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I met Alan Parker once and asked him for the most important bit of advice he could give me as a filmmaker. He said 'never get in over your head'. So many first time directors let the scale of the project get so big that the production ends up with a big star, a huge budget and a rookie director they don't trust in charge. At that point they're looking for an excuse.

It's true that the stock price has made the a-minima a non-event in the London student scene. I know of a guy who was offered a minima kit practically free for a few days and ended up using an ST because of the stock issue (of course it was MOS). Such a shame they didn't just go for 400' or 100' rolls - halfway house loses the benefits of both.

There was a music video shot exclusively with a basher a few years ago, possibly by Michael Gondry? It may have been 8mm, but maybe 16/35 grunged up. I think it was the morning after a party, shooting the wrecked people, it looked like a moving polaroid - hit and miss focus, permanent flash effect. I imagaine they did some colour work in post too for the polaroid look.

If you do more greenscreen remember that you can garbage matte empty portions of the frame - assuming she stands still in the shot, that screen could have been rotated 90 degrees and moved further back while still protecting her. Still it looks manageable to me as it is. Good luck!

We're talking B/W only right? Or a liquid for each layer?

Now you should see 'Sexy Beast' if you haven't, talk about acting range!

Thanks John, for the info and for inventing it!

I recently had a sound guy evangalise a better alternative to the 416 (which is what I see almost everywhere). I think it was the MK-41 Sam suggested. He was saying the principle benefit is that the mic element itself can be removed and used almost as a clipon, ideal for hiding it in a car, on a table, etc. As I say, the 416 is more common and can be got for less than 500ukp with cradle etc. Second hand is a good option since they are supposed to last 20 years.

Hi, Does anyone know what the stock is called that comes with colour patches, some resolution charts and that girl in the middle? I thought it was Kodak TAF but apparently that just has three gray patches acros the whole frame. I would like to get hold of a few feet, and could have sworn it was made by Kodak. Thanks Dan

Really? I was told they were true 16mm and that they were 'brand new'. I'll check into it.

I heard again about the anamorphics Joe Dunton has developed in London. I think they're for super though, and I don't know anything else about them except 'they're great'. Anyone had hands on?

Oh that's what it was - I should really get my flatmate out of jail :D If anyone's really interested: http://www.seti.org/seti/seti_science/Welcome.html Or are we just looking for something to argue about? <_<

Except then you'll be getting film dailies which are as expensive as the Tk and trust me, halfway through cutting a feature 'at home' you'll wish you hadn't.

Hang on! Unlikely?? It's pretty much a statistical certainty that there is life elsewhere - 1,000,000,000 stars in each galaxy, 1,000,000,000 galaxies - someone said it's like finding a blue grain of sand in the sahara desert and assuming it's the only one there. Now, intelligent life is a little less likely, and intelligent life that's figured out how to travel 1000's of times faster than the speed of life is a real headline. Unless they just came to play silly buggers over Manhattan :huh:

The excellent tracking falls apart in the last few frames where the vapour trail doesn't keep up with the jerky camera movement. 3dstudioMax-isms aside, if an object that size accelerated that fast the shockwave would have put out every window in Manhattan, and brought down that helicopter to boot.